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Adam Gopnik on why a visit to get his phone repaired resulted in an unlikely revelation.
Watching those waiting alongside him, Adam comes to the realisation that we have poured ourselves so completely into our phones that the devices, paradoxically, are the one place where we can picture ourselves as selves.
"We all need some box to hold our fears and desires as the winds of the world threaten to blow us away," he concludes.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
By BBC Radio 44.6
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Adam Gopnik on why a visit to get his phone repaired resulted in an unlikely revelation.
Watching those waiting alongside him, Adam comes to the realisation that we have poured ourselves so completely into our phones that the devices, paradoxically, are the one place where we can picture ourselves as selves.
"We all need some box to hold our fears and desires as the winds of the world threaten to blow us away," he concludes.
Producer: Adele Armstrong

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